The Epstein Files and Western Civilizational Decline
(Translated)

Al-Rayah Newspaper - Issue 586 - 11/02/2026

By: Ustaadh Ahmed al-Khatwani

The US Congress forcing the US government and compelling its Department of Justice to release some of Epstein's files is considered the biggest civilizational scandal witnessed by Western countries in the 21st century CE.

It is not merely a personal political scandal involving a president, a leader, or an official, as in the Watergate scandal or the Iran-Contra affair. Instead, it is a broad, public scandal; one that is social, political, moral, and values-based in nature.

This West, which has always falsely claimed to defend human rights, women’s rights, and children’s rights, has had its falsehood exposed by this resounding scandal that revealed the nature of its barbaric, inferior, and inhumane view of humanity.

The West views man only as a lifeless, emotionless, and immoral substance, subjecting him to animalistic experiments to serve a group of deviants, perverts, and sadists. It views woman only as a cheap commodity to be bought and sold in dark slave markets and brothels of insane sexual frenzy. It views the child only as a source of pleasure through torturing them, with utter brutality and cruelty.

Participating in this broad public scandal were presidents such as Trump and Clinton, princes and princesses from Britain, Sweden, and Norway, billionaires such as Bill Gates and Elon Musk, scientists such as Stephen Hawking, in addition to politicians, actors, singers, academics, businessmen, and celebrities from every corner of the globe.

These are the elite of the West who have been led astray by their desires and delusions, and they came running to the island of the devil Jeffrey Epstein, selling their humanity and their disposition, and buying with it what they thought was their well-being and happiness, so they committed immoral acts and sins, and perpetrated crimes and transgressions.

This scandal was not limited to the violation of honor, the trafficking of underage girls, the torture and abuse of children, and the destruction of their innocence. It also encompassed the subversion of justice and the judiciary, the corruption of courts and laws, and the systematic cover-up of those crimes through legal maneuvering, and dubious plea deals for a quarter-century or more.

The American state with all its agencies and both political parties has attempted, and continues to attempt, to conceal the glaring facts of those heinous crimes, and to exonerate those implicated in them by every means available. This scandal and the crimes it produced were first uncovered in 2005, yet from that date onward they were suppressed through dubious legal deals with Jeffrey Epstein, until the scandal erupted for the first time in 2019 with his arrest, followed by his killing inside prison in an apparent effort to eliminate him, and permanently close the case with his death. Nevertheless, the Epstein files scandal erupted again due to its far-reaching ramifications, forcing the US government, under intense public pressure, to release some of its six million documents, of which three million have so far been published in the media, while a quarter-million of the three million cleared for release were withheld from publication, under flimsy national security pretexts, in order to shield the real criminals involved.

Despite the enormity of the scandal, there are still no defendants, because those implicated continue to wield extensive power, that enables them to circumvent the law, block the release of incriminating documents, and flood the public with a massive volume of documents to distract and divert attention from reaching the truth. This, in reality, constitutes a second scandal that confirms the corruption of the courts, the judiciary, the media, and the government in America, and exposes the falsehood of what is called judicial independence and the separation of powers.

Trump has threatened politicians, courts, and media figures with exposing old scandals and naming their perpetrators should he himself be convicted over the Epstein files, declaring that he is prepared to reveal the secrets surrounding the assassinations of Kennedy and Martin Luther King as well as the events of September 11 if he faces any trial. In other words, “If I go down, I take my enemies with me,” so they became afraid and colluded with him.

Thus, it appears that, despite the release of millions of documents, this will not lead to the arrest of those implicated, because they are in fact the real rulers and the ones who hold genuine power within the state.

What is most shameful and humiliating in this scandal is the part that concerns Arabs and Muslims, specifically the gifting by the Saudi businesswoman residing in the United Arab Emirates, Aziza al-Ahmadi, of three pieces of the kiswa (covering) of Al-Kaaba Al-Musharrafah to Jeffrey Epstein, which were shipped from Saudi Arabia aboard British aircraft to Epstein’s residence in the American state of Florida.

Although the act committed by this woman is horrific, disgraceful, and utterly reprehensible, neither Saudi Arabia nor the UAE expressed the slightest disapproval of it, nor did they comment on it, let alone conduct the necessary investigation, treating it instead as something ordinary and permissible, even though it was a monstrous act that provoked the outrage of millions of Muslims who learned of it. In reality these states are nothing but enemies of Islam and Muslims, indifferent to the feelings of Muslims or the sanctity of their holy sites.

Another side scandal in the Epstein files, which adds to his many scandals, is an intelligence scandal related to the American intelligence agencies and Mossad, as all those crimes were documented by filming, recording and printing, as the number of videos reached 200,000 videos, and the number of pictures reached 180,000 pictures, in addition to millions of printed documents. This, if it indicates anything, indicates that what happened was done with the knowledge of the intelligence agencies of countries whose main concern was not to prevent the occurrence of those crimes, or to arrest the criminals. Instead, their goal was only to blackmail the figures involved, which is what these agencies usually do with many politicians in lands of Muslims to pass the required political agenda. Recording, filming, and espionage are routine practices carried out by Western intelligence agencies to blackmail foreign politicians, and turn them into paid agents serving Western states. This resounding civilizational collapse of the West, which the Epstein files have exposed in the first quarter of the 21st century CE, truly heralds the imminent demise of Western civilization and the return of Islamic civilization, which alone is capable of filling the profound vacuum of values that awaits whoever can replenish it with what is in harmony with human nature and innate disposition.